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Ubuntu & NVIDIA: external monitor, rotation, … (.pdf)

January 2011: This how-to describes how to configure external monitors with the “NVIDIA X Server Settings” utility and enable rotation with RandRRotation.

A new application background in OpenOffice Writer (.pdf)

July 2009: playing with the application background in OpenOffice, including mockups of Writer with a picture or a pattern instead of a plain color.

Design proposal for OpenOffice.org Renaissance

In May 2009 the OpenOffice.org project Renaissance called for UI design proposals on the theme “Accessing Functionality”. Check out my contribution, which has been viewed more than 20.000 times within a few weeks.

A plea for hidden rulers in OpenOffice.org Writer (.pdf)

February 2009: In this article I explain why I think that the rulers should be hidden by default in Openoffice.org/LibreOffice Writer.

RedOffice 4.0 Beta – A great new user interface? (.pdf)

June 2008: A review of the Chinese Office Suite Redoffice 4.0 and its innovative user interface. RedOffice has been discontinued.

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7 thoughts on “How to set up automatic updates on Ubuntu Server 20.04, 22.04 or 24.04”

  1. Kai

    Stu*** comment… you’re just saying it shouldn’t do it because it shouldn’t behave like Windows. Something is not wrong, just because has the same behaviour. Then Linux shouldn’t store data in files, because Windows does the same, it shouldn’t use SSDs, USB disks, ..

  2. fynn

    It does need to reboot on kernel updates however. And this apparently checks whether a reboot is required before rebooting.

  3. haddad

    is there a way to setup the updates to run on a specific day of the week, eg: Saturdays at 6am? or something like that?

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  5. Jordy

    What about the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic file? It has the same content as /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.

  6. afc

    Personally, I would not recommend to configure the auto reboot (step 2).
    One of the good things about linux is that nearly all updates do not require system reboot.
    This setting makes linux behave like windows, doesn’t it?

  7. Vladimir

    Don’t uncomment ${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updates unless you know what you’re doing. This will enable unattended NON-SECURITY updates, which may break your server configuration.

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